5 Facilitation Tips To Help Learners Grow
5 Tips To Be A Better Facilitator by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD A few weeks ago as I was wrapping up an Inquiry Workshop with a really fun and great group of Agricultural Science Educators I was approached by a young man who said he would soon be making...
How To Create Learning Through Play: A Spectrum
How To Create Learning Through Playby Terry HeickThis post has been updated from a 2013 post. We’ve talked before about the role of play in learning, and this is an idea that I’m becoming fascinated with. It’s also a bit of a tough nut to crack.What exactly is play?...
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomyby Terry HeickHow can you tell if a student really understands something?They learn early on to fake understanding exceptionally well, and even the best assessment leaves something on the table. (In truth, a...
A Taxonomy For Transfer: 14 Ways Learners Can Transfer What They Know
A Taxonomy For Transfer: 14 Ways Learners Can Transfer What They Knowby Terry HeickWhat is transfer?In “Using Self-Transfer To Drive 21st Century Assessment,” I offered that transfer was “the practice of applying knowledge or meaning from a familiar context to an...
When Students Study What They Can Still Change
When Students Study What They Can Still Change by Terry Heick I was reading the surprisingly enlightening comments section of a YouTube video when I ran across an interesting idea: the energizing effect of making education contemporary. In this context, contemporary...
TeachThought PD
- The Teachthought Podcast Ep. 165 Bridging Polarization To Improve Education Policy
- 8 Of The Most Common Sources Of Formative Assessment Data
- The Teachthought Podcast Ep. 164 Drawing Students To Math With Authentic Purpose
- 12 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints
- 5 Mistakes I Made As A New Teacher
- 10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
- Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
- Why Teachers–Not Schools–Are The Real Institutions
- How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
- 10 Ways To Honor Mistakes In The Learning Process
